The Facey Loveseat, Still in the Family After 5 Generations

Loveseat and Chair Today

Hubs' 2nd great-grandfather Samuel Facey and his wife Margaret Wilford owned this loveseat and chair circa 1900.

Private Collection B. Massey

The photo with the young girl shows the loveseat in the home of their daughter Mary Louise Elgie (nee Facey). That is hubs' mother sitting on it. Mary Louise was her grandmother.

And in this photo taken today, the loveseat is in a new home and hubs' mother is seated on it.

Photo courtesy of D. Bobo

In this photo below of the Facey family outside their home south of St. Mary's Ontario, they carried the loveseat outside to sit on.

Samuel is holding his grandsons Warren Haves and Harry Elgie.  Sitting beside him on the loveseat are his son-in-law William Elgie and William's wife Mary Louise Facey (Samuel and Margaret's daughter).




Isn't it wonderful that 5 generations of Facey descendants have owned and cared for this parlour set?

Hubs' nephew has a young daughter and the next time they visit his grandmother's home we are going to take a photo with hubs, his mom, hubs' nephew and the daughter.

That will make the daughter the 7th generation in the family to sit on the loveseat. Perhaps one day it will be hers.

Photo Archive: Facey, Elgie & Wilford Treasure #2

This is photo #2 from our Photo Archive: Facey, Elgie & Wilford Families

We know these are Facey sisters, daughters of Samuel Facey and his wife Margaret Wilford.

But we aren't sure which daughters they are! Sam and Maggie had daughters Redgon born 1880, hubs' great grandmother Mary Louise, born 1882, Nellie born 1885, and Margaret Jane (aka Jenny) born 1900.

Photo Archive: Facey, Elgie & Wilford Families

Aren't family treasures wonderful? A few days ago hubs resurrected dozens of photos from the late 1800s, early 1900s that were found in his great aunt's house after her demise.

He can identify many of the people, but there are dozens of photographs (I haven't counted them all yet) and probably half of those are of people not known to him. We'll start posting these photos here on Olive Tree Genealogy blog in hopes descendants will spot an ancestor.  Please let us know if you do.

The great aunt who owned these photos was an Elgie from the St. Mary's Ontario area, whose mother was a Facey. Extended family members in the photographs are from the Facey and Wilford families.

These two photos are of hubs' great-grandmother Mary Louise Facey. She was born in 1882 in W. Nissouri Township, Middlesex County Ontario to parents Samuel Facey and Margaret Wilford. Mary Louise married William Elgie and they settled in St. Mary's, Blanchard Township, Perth County.